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To all whom it may concern:

7UNITED ST T "P T T *QFFI F- Io A l-LUTZ or VI ENNA,'AUSTRI A-llUNGARY,'ASSIGNORJ TO PAUL o rosY SAME PlJAOE.

m F AMMABLE 00M POSITION FOR MATCHESL lSIEEGIFICATIONf forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,202, dated December 31,1889. lpplioation filed August 27, less. Serial at. 322,115. (No speoin enm' .7

-'Be a known :that I, JoHA nL-m agub-j eject ofi-the Emperor oi Austria; residing at Vienna, in the Province "of Lower Austria, in

the Empire of Austria-Hungary; have in vented "certain new and Useful Improvements in an-Inflammable'.-Composition for Matches; andl (lo-hereby declare the following. to be a I fn1l,;c lear, ami exact description of theinve'n tion, such as'willenable others skilled in the art to which'it appertains tonrake and use they same.-' ,l L The men on relates to 'the' manufacture of matches,and has'for'i-ts object'to provide not only a safety-match--that is-t0 say, a Inatcli that will not ignite by friction except with a specially-prepared compound-but-to .prodnce a; ;match without 'the usual head' of -intiammable composition. In this manner I materially lessen-the labor of dipping, in that.

the matchs ma'y'he dipped in" bundles,in

" stead. of first is0 lati1;1gthe same by insertion into the nsual dipping-frames. V Inearrying out-my inv'ent'on I preparethe. following inflammable "coxirpositionz water, by vje'ight thirtyparts; chlorate of-soda, by: weight, tiventy parts; sulphate'of ammonia,

. wightifoesparts; c rbohydrate-s aches gumval'abic V gar, orgother carb ohydrate by :g'ihe' ends of the lnatches 'dried, 'and fo nary dipping-frames, as said matches maybe collected in bundlesand oneend of the bun- 5 dle dipped into the solution,-so as to become impregnated therewith, since it is not necessary' to collect at the .matchfend a sufficientquantity of inflammable material to form 'a' 1 head thereon, as is the'cas'c with all matches a d that. I am acquainted with.;

To ignite a matchprepared as described, it must bebr'ought' in frictional contact witha. suitablyeprepared body or materiaL-and this iscomposed of the following chemicals in 5,- eqnal parts, to wit: amorphous phosphorus and finely-dividedand washed blacktrisnl phide of antimony which are thoroughly incorporategi together and formed into a paste -by theaddition of gum-amine; which paste 5o is vthen spreacl upon a suitable snpporting' .Haying described my inventi0n-,.-what I' claim and desi re to secure by Letters, Patent,

herein-described compositiom of mat- 'ter for matqies, consisting -of a solution of a chlorate of s'oda,' sulphate" of ammonia, and a carbohydrate; substantially asjandtor-the purpose specified.-.. i Y 3 'In testitnonyyvhereo I'aflixiny signature in presence of twowitnesses; l 7 -JOHANN'LUTZ.

' RUneLF VON PLANK,

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